netperf 2.3.7 Released

Description: OpenSS7 Old News.

(Edmonton, Alberta -- Oct 31, 2008)
OpenSS7 today announced Release 2.3.7 of the OpenSS7-modified netperf package.
Netperf is a general purpose tool for benchmarking bandwidth and performance of the Internet
Protocol suite. The OpenSS7 Modified OpenSS7 NETPERF Utility package is an OpenSS7 Project
release of the of the Hewlett-Packard netperf package configured to run with OpenSS7 STREAMS SCTP
(Stream Control Transmission Protocol) and the OpenSS7 STREAMS XNS, XTI/TLI and INET packages.

The OpenSS7 NETPERF Utility package provide primarily the
netperf(1) and
netserver(8), C Language programs that act as Netperf
client or server for testing connections and networking. The
netserver(8) program is executed on one host acting as
a server, and then
netperf(1) is executed on another (or the same) host
acting in client mode. Characteristics of the connection or association can be altered when
formed. Reporting formats and sample intervals can also be altered when the connection or
association is formed. Users executing netperf(1) do
not need to have shell access to the netserver(8)
host.

This is a fork of the Netperf package released by Hewlett-Packard modified by the OpenSS7 Project
for use with OpenSS7 STREAMS XNS, XTI/TLI, INET and SCTP packages. This OpenSS7 release of the
package is based on the Netperf-2.3 release from Hewlett-Packard.

Modifications to the package are derived from the OpenSS7 STREAMS XNS, XTI/TLI, INET and SCTP
implementations and are release under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) Version
3. The Netperf tool itself is licensed under specific terms by Hewlett-Packard. Please
see file LICENSES in the release for the
Hewlett-Packard Netperf copyright notices and licensing restrictions.
This is the seventh full release of the OpenSS7 NETPERF Utility package. This
release is a stable, production grade release for Linux Fast-STREAMS and is part of the OpenSS7
Master Package (openss7-0.9.2.F).

This release is largely a maintenance release that provides support for more distributions an
architectures as well as tracking feature updates on related packages.

Major features since the last public release are as follows:

Minor documentation corrections.

License upgrade to AGPL Version 3.

Support for flex 2.5.33 in maintainer mode.

Ability to strap out major documentation build and installation primarily for embedded targets.

Improvements to common build process for embedded and cross-compile targets.

Updated tool chain to m4-1.4.12, autoconf-2.63 and texinfo-4.13.

Conversion of RPM spec files to common approach for major subpackages.

Build system now builds yum(8) repositories for RPMs and apt-get(8) repositories for DEBs. Installation documentation has been updated to include details of repository install sourcesref.

Added MODULE_VERSION to all modules and drivers.

Fixed long_options termination error.

Added -I option to SCTP tests to permit the addresses to bind to for both the local netperf(1) client and remote netserver(8) server. This permits addresses to be excluded from the bind for testing in single-homed and limited multi-homed configurations.

Updated documentation for the bind feature.

This is a public stable production grade release of the package: it deprecates previous
releases. Please upgrade to the current release before reporting bugs.

As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles, installs and builds RPMs and
DEBs for a wide range of Linux 2.4 and 2.6 RPM- and DPKG-based distributions, and can be used on
production kernels without patching or recompiling the kernel.

The OpenSS7 Project
is an opensource development project (called OpenSS7) to provide a robust and GPL'ed SS7, SIGTRAN,
ISDN and VoIP signalling stack for Linux and other UN*X operating systems.
The OpenSS7 Project
has existed in one form or another since 1996. For dowloads and further information, see the
project website.